J. William Fulbright

James William Fulbright (9 April 1905-9 February 1995) was a member of the US Senate from Arkansas (D) from 3 January 1945 to 31 December 1974, succeeding Hattie Caraway and preceding Dale Bumpers. He previously served as a member of the US House of Representatives from Arkansas' 3rd district from 3 January 1943 to 3 January 1945, succeeding Clyde T. Ellis and preceding James William Trimble.

Biography
James William Fulbright was born in Sumner, Montana in 1905, and he was raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He was educated at Arkansas University and at Oxford, and went on to become a distinguished lawyer specializing in antitrust legislation. He was elected to the US Congress in 1943, and moved to the US Senate in 1945. He opposed isolationism and Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunt, and he served as Chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1959 to 1974. He was also an active critic of US interventionist policies in the 1960s and 1970s, criticizing the 1965 intervention in the Dominican Republic, attacking US involvement in the Vietnam War, and urged that Congress should have more control over the President's powers to make war. A Rhodes Scholar himself, in 1946 he sponsored the Fulbright Act, which provided federal funds for the exchange of students and teachers between the USA and other countries. He died in Washington DC in 1995 at the age of 89.